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}}“Perfection is the enemy of good enough.” Easy enough for Voltaire to say, apparently impossible for anyone to understand when contemplating the potential for [[reg tech]] to assist the — ahh, [[Legal services delivery|“''delivery''” of “legal services”]]. In a nutshell, if you think, with {{author|Daniel Susskind}}, that [[AI]] will any time soon be replacing lawyers wholesale and putting the profession out of a job, you are going to be disappointed for a ''very'' long time. Don’t forget the [[JC]]’s {{t|maxim}}: [[reg tech can remain disappointing longer than you can remain animate]].<ref>With apologies to John Maynard Keynes and his aphorism: “the markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”</ref> | }}“Perfection is the enemy of good enough.” Easy enough for Voltaire to say, apparently impossible for anyone to understand when contemplating the potential for [[reg tech]] to assist the — ahh, [[Legal services delivery|“''delivery''” of “legal services”]]. In a nutshell, if you think, with {{author|Daniel Susskind}}, that [[AI]] will any time soon be replacing lawyers wholesale and putting the profession out of a job, you are going to be disappointed for a ''very'' long time. Don’t forget the [[JC]]’s {{t|maxim}}: [[reg tech can remain disappointing longer than you can remain animate]].<ref>With apologies to John Maynard Keynes and his aphorism: “the markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”</ref> | ||
If, however, you look at [[AI]] as a tool to ''quickly'' knock out the easy stuff — fix the formatting, spot that the governing law is not English, word-search for '''<indemn*>''' | If, however, you look at [[AI]] as a tool to ''quickly'' knock out the easy stuff — fix the formatting, spot that the governing law is not English, word-search for '''<indemn*>''' — while recognising that you, kind sir, still have a role reading the agreement to pick out the ''hard stuff'' — then you may expect years of trouble-free motoring. | ||
“Good enough” is enough to satisfy most people other than [[lawyers]] and the kind of child<ref>And what do children like that grow up to be? YOU ARE LOOKING AT ONE.</ref> who, when writing postcards to his grandparents, addresses it thus: | “Good enough” is enough to satisfy most people other than [[lawyers]] and the kind of child<ref>And what do children like that grow up to be? YOU ARE LOOKING AT ONE.</ref> who, when writing postcards to his grandparents, addresses it thus: | ||